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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
9
The Kansas City Star lists delivery options and mailing rates for Morning Evening and Sunday editions. Rates include 40 cents weekly by carrier, 15 cents weekly by mail, or 7 dollars yearly, with postpaid in advance and a noted circulation average for each edition.
The Attorney General Hapsey advocates proper regulation of liquor traffic over statewide prohibition. He supports excluding breweries and saloons from politics as the most practical method to curb the rum evil, a view common in Missouri until brewers and saloon keepers opposed it.
The author condemns waste as cheap and tacky, equating household waste and national resource mismanagement. He argues overconsumption harms future security, cites timber, coal, gas, and oil waste, and warns against relying on the Senate’s trust in God to inspire public thrift.
The Missouri Supreme Court re hearing reaffirms the park maintenance tax as valid and beyond attack. The court bases its ruling on broad municipal powers, enabling Kansas City to expand streets parks and boulevards while protecting property rights. The decision signals continued growth in city welfare programs and municipal authority.
Friends of the movement in Kansas City Kansas push a vigorous campaign to educate voters on the Commission government plan. They stress the need to counter entrenched special interests and recall how the push against saloons once framed the fight for reform.
The piece argues that Des Moines and Leavenworth voters shifted to support Commission government and urges Kansas City to rally behind the plan, warning that defeating it would be a backward step and risk the city’s best interests. It cites broad support across classes and races for the reform.
The President invites Mr. Bryan to address the conservation conference and asks Governor Johnson of Minnesota to preside at a session, showing a continued avoidance of invidious distinctions by the Great Politician.
An observant line notes Taft has votes to spare but cautions this does not imply plans to transfer support to others. The statement focuses on Taft’s current stance and possible political maneuvering without asserting concrete concessions.
The final push to raise funds for the Y M C A building equips a community hub with gym reading and game rooms night schools and a club atmosphere for Kansas City youths especially those without homes The effort appeals to public spirit beyond private or sectarian aims.
Newport society leaders ban commission agents selling household ware to cottagers. Newcomers to Newport face social boycott as agents rely on social recognition to gain orders. Families previously courted by agents stop buying locally due to pressure exerted by the social elite.
Mrs Mollie Brown a pretty young widow of Brooklyn captured a burglar on the last day of April. Her portrait appeared in May 1 papers and in the following days she received seventy letters from admirers including proposals and requests for correspondence.
Poem fragment by George Craly on love’s demands, demanding three things courage time and constancy as prerequisites for affection. The tyrant of the bow and wings tests lovers with Time courage and constancy.
The New York Evening Post notes a private collection at the Arts club featuring works by Greco Turner Battoni Pannini and others. Notable pieces include a Greco Christ Bearing the Cross and Turner mid ocean view while Dutch and Flemish pieces by Schutt van der Hagen du Jardin Engelbrechtsen and van der Werff are also praised. The collection also holds works by Watteau Reynolds Morland and Hogarth among others.
A fragmentary discussion on Matthew Arnold's pursuit of sweetness and light as the aim of culture. It contrasts culture’s compassion and rational aims with harmful machinery and hatred, urging broad access to sweetness and light for as many as possible, amid references to literature and creative power.
The article describes a new bungalow type clubhouse at Playground No. 2 near Echo Park in Los Angeles. It sits on a ridge above the playground chain, covers 40 by 83 feet, and is twice as large as the nearby Playground No. 1 facility. An assembly room is highlighted as the feature in this improved park area.
Leslie's Weekly notes Berlin's private Rescue society of surgeons runs a paid‑by‑duty ambulance model. Members volunteer and take turns on emergency calls, preventing inexperienced practitioners from treating street victims.
An urban playground complex details a 32 by 48 foot building with a stage, baths, offices, clubrooms, and two story admissions including showers and lockers. It notes 32 160 visitors in a year and four acres near Echo Park with fence plans and vine walls. The piece then discusses Berlin ambulance usage, intercity comparisons, and public perception of rapid emergency response.
Enrico Caruso slips into town with a small entourage of managers and luggage, a tense moment over a “Merry Widow” piano piece, and a firm businesslike edge in negotiating at the Hollenden. He praises America yet insists he won’t work for Hammerstein, citing his three year Metropolitan contract as key.
Thoughtful lines describe a poet roaming mountain streams in spring. He wears a fur coat and mittens with earmuffs but forgets his skates and snowshoes at home, contrasting warmth with missing gear. The verse humorously contrasts seasonal misfit.
A motif of humor and local events across Kansas includes Harper county courting immigration with a ballbearing hearse, Messiah receipts at Lindsborg totaling 3770.25 with 2872.94 expenses, and a GOP snarl over Missouri Pacific railer divorces. Also noted are quips on opportunity, a new Atchison Globe reporter, a would be insane claimant in Thomas county, recipes in Cook Book No 2, a moving Iola Record parade, George Hughes’ London trip, and reflections from the Chase county stockman era.
Announcement from the New York Herald states Miss Mary C. Willis of New York and Mr. James Alfred Roosevelt of Boston, a second cousin of President Roosevelt, plan marriage though no date has been set. Willis hails from an old Long Island family. Roosevelt has wintered in New York at his grandmother's home and is active in Boston clubs.
Houdini unveils a new trick in Philadelphia at Keith's. The performer enlists a sealed water filled iron can with wrists manacled, six padlocks, and a timed escape to reappear on cue, prompting astonishment and debate over the method.
Israel Putnam claimed he shot the wolf and joked he practiced on neighbors' cats for a safe burial spot. He also filed for a bounty on the wolf's scalp, reflecting a mix of humor and utility in a frontier encounter.
A mix of local observations and quotes from Missouri papers covers temperance in Coffey-Father Coffey, German influence in Franklin County, a Japanese-named village, the Sumner Star’s expansion, California serenaders, harsh critics of Mrs. Gunness, a Missouri girl to marry a Boston man, railroads’ fast track, Claude Trent’s Navy duties, and Galt elections. Also remarks on school votes, and corn yield prospects from Dean Waters with advisory points for Missouri farmers.
A poetic fragment extols natural splendor from dawn light on hills to moonlit woods. Attributed to Madison Cawern, the verse calls the Fancy to follow into scenes of sea, rain, thunder, and starlit skies.
A collage of remarks and anecdotes wide ranging from Harry Thaw to Hetty Green, socialists, steamboats, crime figures, critics and poets. The piece moves through political theater, letters, and rural humor, weaving street talk with cultural observations and a dash of philosophy.
Miss Gertie Reynolds, graduate of Weber and Fields, wowed London with a Spanish dance at the Tivoli on Saturday. The performance earned high praise, sharing top honors with Harry Lauder, and comparisons to the empire’s famed star are suggested. Advertising copy closes the piece listing piano rentals at Jenkins.
A dated warning against buying via a friend’s brokered inside prices. The ad claims Jenkins pays no commission and offers the lowest U S prices on Steinway Geo Steck Vose Krakauer Ludarw ochachter burn pianos while urging customers to trust personal taste and the store’s quality guarantee. It invites written inquiries for details.
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